Ex-Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano's resentencing adjourned indefinitely, records show

The resentencing of former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, currently serving a 12-year prison term for pressuring the Town of Oyster Bay to indirectly guarantee loans for a family friend, has been adjourned indefinitely, according to federal court records.

Mangano, a Republican who served two terms as county executive, has been serving time in a Massachusetts federal prison since 2022. He was scheduled to remotely attend his resentencing on Jan. 15. The adjourned court appearance follows the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second District's overturning of a pair of bribery and conspiracy charges due to "insufficient" evidence, Newsday previously reported.

It was not immediately clear Monday why federal Judge Joan M. Azrack in the Eastern District of New York adjourned Mangano’s remote appearance. The judge previously approved defense attorneys’ requests to postpone Mangano’s resentencing from Oct. 9 to Dec. 4, then again to Jan. 15 so they could review the federal probation department’s resentencing report, Newsday previously reported. Azrack also approved Mangano’s request to appear from Federal Medical Center Devens, in Massachusetts, where he has been working as a head chef and raising a future service dog while incarcerated.

Both Moe Fodeman, Mangano’s attorney, and John Marzulli, a spokesperson for the Eastern District of New York, separately declined to comment when reached by telephone Monday afternoon.

A jury convicted Mangano on March 8, 2019 of conspiracy to commit federal programs bribery, federal programs bribery, conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud, honest services wire fraud and conspiracy to obstruct justice for pressuring the Town of Oyster Bay to indirectly back $20 million worth of loans for Harendra Singh, a Mangano family friend and restaurateur who sold concessions at town beaches.

The jury acquitted Mangano of extortion and one count of honest services wire fraud.

A federal appeals court agreed with Mangano’s defense that since he was not a town official, he could not be convicted of two of the charges: federal programs bribery and conspiracy to commit federal programs bribery. That court threw out those two charges on Feb. 13, Newsday reported at the time.

Linda Mangano, the county executive’s wife who prosecutors said was paid by Singh for a no-show job, was convicted of obstruction of justice, conspiracy to obstruct justice and two counts of making false statements, but acquitted of one count of making false statements. She served about a third of her 15-month sentence in a federal prison in Connecticut before she was released to home confinement, Newsday previously reported.